you can download stills of 7 different videos by jade, vj azz, c++, Ni & boesebertha,
Nowemba, Elektra Bregenz and Ella Esque in 72 dpi and 300 dpi as well as the dvd1 cover and a
collage of 25 video stills.

Celebrating the 10 year anniversary of female:pressure, a pioneering project to raise the visibility of female artists in
electronic music, and following up on our open:sounds CD (released in 2006) we are proud to present our first DVD:
female:pressure dvd1

From the beginning, VJs (Video Jockeys) and other visual artists have been part of the female:pressure community because
they essentially shape the characteristics of almost every realm in electronic music and club culture. Yet, the work of video
artists is not being recognized appropriately in this context - this applies both to their payment as to their public perception.
To counteract the one-sided focus on DJs and musicians we want to offer "our" visual artists the overdue possibility to
present their work adequately.

Our production platform open:sounds - implemented in 2005 - provided the basis for the DVD:
female:pressure musicians made new tracks and remixes of the previously existent material available through open:sounds.

Thanks to the funding of "Verein Stadtimpuls Wien" (Vienna City
Impulse Association), we were able to invite female:pressure video artists resident in Vienna to create videos for the 21
international tracks compiled from our open:sounds pool. Their works cover the broad spectrum of different methods of visualizing
electronic music: from live video mixing to video clips to experimental filmlets and animations. Christina Goestl's design of the DVD connects the heterogeneous works and
creates continuity. Thus, one can view single clips as well as watch the DVD in full length.

Through free distribution of the whole pressing (3000 copies) and the application of Creative Commons Licenses
(Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works) for video and audio material, we want to ensure a most widespread non-commercial
use, increase the presence of female:pressure artists - especially visual artists - and demonstrate networking by contemporary,
alternative means. The DVD will be available in selected record stores and online. Hardwax Berlin carries out the physical distribution.

Christina Goestl, electronic media artist, creates interactive applications and open systems and plays with images (s.EXE
interactives, visual sequencer, ars electronica 2001), words (www.club-ware.net - together with Boris Kopeinig) and
electronic dance music (www.femalepressure.net/dvd.html). She is a netizen, living in the EU, and holding a master of art degree.
Base-URL: www.clitoressa.net, contact: c[at]clitoressa[dot]net

e:v/a got interested in visualisation during her studies of art history - focussing on contemporary art. After a few years of
following the visual evolution in theory she started her active vj-career playing live as a member of the vj-collective source in
january 2006. During that time e:v/a learned a lot concerning production and live-visualisation and soon she worked out her very
own style. She is permantently seeking for new material, new footage and loves figuring out new possibilities of working with
camera and software. One of the most important things in visualising is good music. e:v/a loves visualizing music that she enjoys
and her first aim is to combine her visuals with the sound as matching as possible.
e:v/a is curating and organising "sound:frame - festival for visualizing
electronic music". Therefore she founded "ei(s)kon:fekt. verein zur förderung der audio-visuellen kultur"
together with romana kleewein in october 2006. With the
realisation of sound:frame she aims at equating sound and picture. She is trying to connect visual artists and musical acts and
desires to sensitise a broader audience to the amazing quality of audio-visual "space-invasion".

Born and raised in Vienna Jacqueline Kraus aka Elektra Bregenz specialised in photography, video and object art in the course of
her art studies. Collecting records has always been her passion which inevitable led to public performances. She plays electronic
music as her name already indicates. But her style is hard to describe because it is so versatile that it doesn't fit into any
genre.

Evatronica alias Eva Schimmer, works as a photo-artist. After working as a photo-editor for newspapers and weekly magazines for 4
years, she decided to take pictures herself. During travels, ... she created a collection of self-produced photo material that provides
the basis for her performances. Intense, colourful images mixed together to a unique content pool. Adjusted to the sound and the
theme of the event, mixed in realtime, those captured moments and impressions come to live again for the audience. In May 2005 she
organised slideshows in club context under the title "photography for the masses": an interdisciplinary coalescence of
VJ-ing with slideshows under the pseudonym "Evatronica".
Evatronica is working on several photobooks right now.

VJ LUMA (a.k.a. Astrid Steiner) is one of the pioneers of VJ culture in Austria. As one part of the VJ Duo luma.launisch Astrid
Steiner has played in some of the major VJ events as well as some of the best known clubs in Austria and Germany. Astrid Steiner
also enlightens the screens of classical music halls and opera houses where her videos are much more than background stage design.
Her aim is to tell stories rather than showing affirmative decoration on the screen. This brought her the attention of the art
scene and invitations to create video installations for the Vienna Biennale 2006 and for the Soundframe 2008 exhibtion in the
Künstlerhaus Wien.
Astrid Steiner developed her skills and her unique style by working as an editor on Austrian TV shows like "Sendung ohne
Namen&quot". She has also worked on internationally acclaimed and documentaries and commercials.
"Astrid Steiner aka VJ LUMA creates surreal landscapes and graphical journeys that harmonize or disharmonize the music."
(VMS VJ Label, 2007)

super u started her visual shaping eight years ago in France and is named after a hypermarket that leaves nothing to be desired,
ever since. Her choice is hyperreal just as well as digital. In the context of live cinema, theater and electronic music she
combines current computer based filmmaking techniques with self-tinkered materials to create fragmented visions and micro
stories that invite the viewer into a world with its own internal logic. super u studied Media- and Interaction Design in Graz
and Berlin and has been working in Vienna since 2007.

Vienna-based producer Angina P takes her name from the throat inflammation that plagued her throughout most of her childhood and
teenage years. Shaping her into the person she is today, she takes powerful layers and sharp contrasts to create compositions that
are abrasive, complex, and emotionally charged. While persistently raw and moody, the music maintains a sense of pureness and digs
deep into her psyche.
Angina P has previously appeared on a number on compilation CDs and on-line releases. Her songs on mp3.com have reached number 1 in their respective genres and have over 370,000 downloads. She has been aired
on many radio stations and syndicated shows throughout the world. Additionally, her cinematic style has earned her appearances in
both the film and video game industries. Her credits include the track "Hidden Assault" which has been featured in the
DVD version of the Warner Bros' film, "Taking Lives",
and the History Channel's show, "Air Stealth, Sea Stealth, Land Stealth". She has also composed the soundtrack and sound
effects for the video game, "SunAge", released by Lighthouse Interactive. Apart from writing and producing her own tracks, Angina P also performs live and
remixes tracks for fellow musicians. A busy up-and-comer, make sure to keep a close eye on her for the future.

Kiki Moorse, familiar as founding member of Chicks on Speed which
formed 1997 in Munich, has left Chicks on Speed after nine years, an own label, innumerable collaborations, more than twenty
releases, a book, Karl Lagerfeld, Jean-Charles de Castelbajac and worlwide tours. She has written the lyrics for C.O.S.'s first
hit Glamour Girl and Coventry among others and designed and photographed numerous C.O.S. artworks (Kaltes Klares Wasser-sleeve,
the Boob Monster, ...) and has designed C.O.S.'s stage clothes and collections.
Kiki is daughter of filmproducer Barbara Moorse (Brennende Langeweile) and late film director George Moorse (Lenz, Der Findling,
Kuckucksjahre, Lindenstrasse). She grew up in Munich's film scene in the family home in Schwabing. At 13 she hangs on
Leopoldstrasse at Cafe Capri with Klaus Lemke and designs her first clothing line for Guenther Schmalor's Schwabing boutique. At
15 she designs the costumes for cult movie Der Fan. Some years later, Kiki lives in paris where she assists Vogue fashion editors.
After two years she returns to Munich to become a fashion editor herself with Miss Vogue. During this time she travels between
Paris, Munich, N.Y., London, Tokyo and L.A. Miss Vogue folds, she now works as free lance editor for German Elle, Harpers Bazaar,
Cosmopolitan, does styling. 1997 she meets Melissa and Alex and they decide to work together on a mutual project.
2000 Berlin becomes her new home. Since 2003 she has DJed as part of COS DJ team + solo. 2007 she starts the music project
BadFrench with Andreas Reihse and participates in
numerous LP projects: DR Teslas Earthquake machine, Sonic weekend #2 and #3 (white label music UK), The Tin Islands, toffeetronic
UK.

Since Techno first beckoned in '97, this young lady has cultivated fluid, plastic grooves with the expertise of electronic
botanist. To cop an eyeful, you have to witness her playing to a crowd, no matter where she lays her hat - which quickly
appreciates how she translates all the energy a sight for sore eyes has to maintain in order to stay afloat the machismo-machines
into thriving kindness. Carola Pisaturo is co-founder of titbit music
and runs claque musique.

Chez Debs, a one-woman Belgian electronic band residing in Copenhagen brings you electro beats with deep bass and melodic synths.
The music is accompanied by Chez Debs' low-key vocals and high-key staged attitude. She often collaborates with different artists
to present live shows and to create music videos.
Chez Debs has been making electronic music with her laptop and keyboard since some years now. She has performed at different
places and venues e.i. at the Norberg festival in Sweden, at the FancyHim club in Tokyo, at Lido in Berlin,
and at different locations and clubs in Denmark (for instance in connection with the Copehagen Jazz festival, as a support act for
the Canadian band Lesbians on Ecstasy , Aarhus Festuge, and Culture Box Copenhagen).
Her song "Visitors" has been released on the compilation "The Wired Ones" by Berlin-based record label Wired Records. In addition, Wired Records plans a Chez Debs EP scheduled
this spring. Another song ("Chanson pour les pirates") has been released on the Danish compilation "Ornli' syg gadefest".

Clara Moto started spinning records in 2004, and has been a producer and live-act since 2005. After a childhood lit up by classic
piano studies, she now stands up as one of the new faces of the Austrian electronic scene, having set with a couple of friends her
own label Houseverbot and in organizing the reputable Birds
parties at the Postgarage in Graz. Discovered at the latest editions of Sonar and Montreux
festivals, Clara cultivates an uncommon elegance on the fringes of minimal, microhouse and electronica through her Live-, Dj-sets
and her productions. She has been invited to many parties in Graz, Vienna, Ljublijana, Bratislava, Brighton, Budapest, Melbourne,
Barcelona, San Sebastian, Toledo, Paris,.... Living now in Barcelona she still keeps a residency in her hometown Graz. In November
2007 her first EP "Glove Affair" has been released on the French Label Infiné.

Sound diamonds - DJ Da Cuts music combines HipHop and Jungle flavored beats, deep rooted bass lines and sneaky sound fills blended
with subtle harmonic shifts to an unique assemblage that builds its own vision of urban music. Her audio cuts create an
exceptional atmosphere that guides everybody directly into a universe of sparkling sound jewels.
At her live performances the DJ from Hamburg is packed with two turntables and an exclusive collection of self produced songs,
loops and cuts, where she constructs a music architecture out of impulsive rhythms, glooming bass patterns and varying sound marks
that captures the entire environment. DJ Da Cut's music also works beyond nightclubs and dancefloors. She released various albums
and composed turntable concerts. DJ Da Cut creates sound pearls that grace everyday life and blaze even more at night - pure tone
diamonds that truly provide something extraordinary for its listener.

Electric Indigo, DJ and musician, has rocked clubs, festivals, and raves in 35 countries in Europe, Asia, North- and South
America. Her name stands for an intelligent interpretation of the terms "techno" and "party". She started her
DJ career in Vienna in 1989 with jazz and funk sets, but soon found her style in the Detroit and Chicago techno sound. In her
Berlin years (1993-1996), she was responsible for purchasing and communication at the legendary record dealer Hard Wax. In 1998 she initiated female:pressure. 2003 Electric Indigo started her own record label indigo:inc recordings. Since 2004 she has been working on
experimental electronic live projects with musicians like Mia
Zabelka, Dorit Chrysler, Akemi Takeya and Pia Palme.
Since 2006 she also performs solo live acts for dance floors.

Music as medication: Not everybody who dances to her records realizes that they are listening to a qualified nurse. And why should
they? In the first place, Estroe is an extremely good DJ who has recently started performing live with her own productions. Just
don't call her a techno DJ, "I've always played and made everything I like". The Amsterdam-born Estroe nowadays
belongs to a small handful of female DJs that has made it to the top. She has played the decks at all of the major dance
festivals, including the Dutch festivals Dance Valley and Lowlands as well as the Movement Festival in Detroit, where she stood
alongside DJs such as Sven Väth, Derrick May and Carl Cox, who later added her single Bellisimore to his top ten favourite
records. As well as establishing herself as a DJ, Estroe is also a serious musician. She started producing somewhere in 2003,
when techno was in a "contest" to become "harder and more grim". As an unconscious response to that Estroe
based her first singles on the early days of Detroit techno, the days when Carl Craig, Kenny Larkin and the British group The
Black Dog cradled their synthesizers instead of beating them up.
In autumn 2006 she launched the web label EevoNext which she manages along
with Stefan 'Terrace' Robbers and Klaas-Jan 'The Moderator' Jongsma. With the release of "Driven" on Connaisseur Superieur (2007) and "Bellisimore" on the
Scottish 7th Sign label (2006), in which she is supported by
Laurent Garnier, Funk d Void and Ben Sims, Estroe is on the verge of international break through.

since 1990 irradiation has been well renowned for her sensual dark electronic music projects. she released on temp˜records, a label founded by herself, female pressure open:sounds, or on netlabels like mir music and kreatur so far. AV-Cooperations started in 2002 with mingo.tv and led from 2003 on
to live performances with visualist stefan kushima in clubs from
london to istambul. further live musical cooperations featured digilog, martin stepanek, werner puntigam and das
fleisch. 2007 saw the birth of irradiation feat. mieze medusa a project
crossing borders between techno, hiphop and poetry. fm4 soundselection 17 proudly
presents their first hit and soundframe festival 2008 celebrated their live
talents. irradiation is well respected in austria's electronic music scene for her integrative qualities. (co-) organizing temp˜ electronic music festival, the clubseries
temp˜est, temp˜eriert and klick! irradiation links the audio
and visual domain beyond austrian borders.

Margaret Noble started her career in the sound-arts as an electronic music DJ in the underground club community of Chicago. From
2003 to 2004, she traveled as performance DJ throughout the United States and Mexico. In 2004, she branched out from dance floor
DJing into more experimental interests and created a monthly sound arts showcase in Chicago called "Spectacle".
Throughout this period she received multiple write-ups in UR, Newcity, The Sun Times, The Reader, The Chicago Tribune and Vogue.
From 2005 to 2007, she completed an MFA in sound art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She now performs locally and
nationally as an experimental composer in solo and in collaboration with video artists. Her collaborative works include short
experimental films and audio recordings which have been exhibited in a variety of film festivals and art openings nationally and
internationally.

Previously Marine was working on her Mixher project and Miruna at the Hector project. Not long time ago, they decided to collaborate and
they gave birth to Stereonucleose. The name is a painfull memory of Miruna since she was a teenager and caught the Mononucleosis.
To avoid medical names and low quality mono sound, the two members decided to change the illness into a band called
Stereonucleosis. The franco-romanian project is born in Bucharest, Romania. The two members are now moving to Berlin, the exact
middle between their two countries.

Water Lilly is one of the main figures representing the Swiss electro scene today. Behind the decks since 96 and producing from 99
she materializes a subtle mixture of analogue atmospheric sounds with a pumpy dancefloor feeling. After six EP's released on Mental Groove and Lasergun records, she delivered her debut album called "Sputnika".
Working on many different projects Water Lilly likes to collaborate with other artists and medias being for instance part of the
soundratck of two movies from the French Director Xavier Giannoli, like 2006 year's Cannes official selection movie: "Quand
j'ètais chanteur" with Gerard Depardieu. Water Lilly also mixed the Street Parade Underground compilation CD 2006 released on EMI.
As well as the famous Swiss brand of watches TISSOT collaborated with Water Lilly for the launch of their new line for woman, the
T-Touch.

As a producer ZoëXenia creates a hybrid of rolling bass, mysterious soundscapes and funked-up beats. As a singer she uses her
voice not only as vocal, but instrument itself, keeping her firmly on the avante-garde tip. "I like to improvise and try
things with my voice, it's an instrument I carry everywhere; like recording myself having the hiccups, and making some fine
rhythms with it." She made it to the Diesel-U-Music Benelux
finals in 2003, was a selected finalist at Grote Prijs van Nederland in 2004
and now performs both as a vocalist and electronic live-act on parties and festivals throughout Europe.
Her first EP was released on ArtMiniMal in Spring 2007,
October 2007 she appeared on Connaisseur with the 'Sweet
Dreams ep', a producers battle beween her and collegue Estroe.This year she
will appear on Connaisseur with a track on the new Grand Cru 2008 compilation and with a solo ep. Apart from producing, Zoë
loves her work as a vocalist. Pacha recordings invited her to come to Ibiza and
record vocals for Richard Grey and she recently did vocals & lyrics for
the new albums from Dub Taylor and Marco Bailey.
Advancing and refining what electronic music can be and collaborating with different artists, are the inspiration for what
ZoëXenia does. Equally important is how she brings that to the dancefloor. On stage she has remarkable presence. With her
powerful, soulful voice, and her ability to produce sounds as if from another planet, she weaves together a hypnotic, ecstatic
experience for the listener; an exchange of energy that dissolves boundaries, where music becomes a universal language.
ZoëXenia supports Dance4life, the organisation that devotes itself to
inform youth about Aids and HIV prevention by hosting danceparties in more than 10 different countries throughout the world,
raising money for the Aids foundation.